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2006-06-14 Home Front: WoT

"Targeted Killing" of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

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Posted by Steve White 2006-06-14 11:19|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm always suprised where Anti-Israeli sentiment raises it's ugly head. I always assumed, quite mistakenly, that there was alot more sympathy toward the Israeli's problems.
I guess I was wrong.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-14 13:14|| 2006-06-14 13:14|| Front Page Top

#2 "removal of terrorist leaders is either okay, or it isn't"

it iz. ima win.

/channeling muck4doo

Posted by Angolung Thoter3849 2006-06-14 13:17|| 2006-06-14 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 When a leader specifically issues threats against the safety of your country and the lives of its citizens, you take them seriously or you dismiss them as just looney talk. If you ever had a threat against your person or your family, then you assume the worst and plan for it.

When someone like Adminidajad of Iran, or any Mad Mullah goes public on TV, recruits suicide bombers and/or calls on people to kill your country's citizens, then, as far as I am concerned, it is an act of war. The question is: what is the response? It must be appropriate.

My suggestion is that the perpetrators and instigators of the threat or actual violence are fair game and a legitimate target. They also have to realize that they are targets NO MATTER WHERE THEY WILL BE. That means that hiding in an apartment complex is not going to save them. People around them must realize that they are putting themselves at risk by being around this terrorist target. A few of these targeted assassinations and people around the world will realize that the civilized world means business. They will start treating these instigators like lepers. The instigators will also realize that THEY AND THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILIES will also be targets. That should put an end to most of it.

There is no way to be nice about this business. However, it must be kept in mind that violence instigated must be appropriate and measured. So put your nukes away, folks, at least for now.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-06-14 18:48|| 2006-06-14 18:48|| Front Page Top

#4 no need for nukes AP - a 250 lb JDAM guided chunk of concrete (or better yet blue "ice" from a jetliner toilet) would do the trick

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-14 19:49|| 2006-06-14 19:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Targeted killings are bad.....but only if you miss the target.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-14 21:11|| 2006-06-14 21:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Can alleged asymmetric "People's War of Resistance" against US "imperialism", terrorism, and bellicosity > simul also a Regional-Global Radical Islamist-Iranian Revol War for Empire??? IONews, SPACEWAR.com reports that US official believe Zark's successor MAJAHER is also AL-MASRI, an Eqyptian and Zarkey's right hand man.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-14 23:09|| 2006-06-14 23:09|| Front Page Top

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